Question to anti-side switchers

[molybdenum]

What's your problem with it?
I'm trying to figure out the mindset of the players who are deeply displeased when someone flies for another team for a day or two. I truly don't get it (except if someone jumps sides to ambush a mission they otherwise would not have known of, that is clearly uncool).

Well?

[guncrasher]

question is why do you have the need to switch?  I have friends in all 3 countries.  I have flown with rooks and knights and maybe a week or 2 with bishops.

I used to switch a lot before not because I couldnt get kills but because I wanted more kills.  I thought it was all fun, I was switching several times a day, back when it was a 1 hour switch.  then I got killed by this guy that I had just saved him from a couple of others and he went back and landed switched countries and came back and killed me.  I was damaged, low on fuel and little ammo.

after that I never switched.  like I said I have friends in all countries.  I dont need to fly along them to know they are pretty cool. I have met a couple in real life .


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[pembquist]

after that I never switched. 


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I don't understand, was he mad at you?

[lefty2]

why is it nobody likes bish?

[Skyguns MKII]

why is it nobody likes bish?

Rooks/Knights just sounds cooler

[BaldEagl]

First of all I'm not "deeply displeased" when someone flies for another team.  Frankly I don't care.

I was always an AZ in AW and have always been a Bish in AH other than one time I was pissed at Bish for being idiots letting another country steamroll us while they attacked undefended bases (I got over it after switching to defend the bases the Bish were attacking) and a couple of times specifically to fly with people in other countries. 

After nearly 20 years I've found everything goes in cycles (generally measured in months).  Sometimes you have the numbers, other times you don't.  I don't like always being on one side of the numbers equation or the other so just staying put and rolling with whatever happens seems to work out fine for me.  Lack of fights, ENY, Hordes; you get to see it all and learn to make fun no matter what.

If you want to switch more power to you.  I don't see the point.

[guncrasher]

I don't understand, was he mad at you?

nope.


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[NatCigg]

why is it nobody likes bish?

ooh ooh i know! its because... they never flew bish. 

[ebfd11]

In laymans terms i dont switch because i am in a squad who chooses as a whole not to switch.. I have people on all 3 sides i respect and some i have met personally.... 1maddog1 lyric1 drbone unklbone nefarious and a few i forgot....

Dont get me wrong i have respect for others in game who are not on the knights and would in a heartbeat help any of them out if rhey asked for help... I have been a knight since i came on over 10 years ago and i have been happy since....

Does that answer your question???

Lawndart

[Bizman]

(Un)like Lawndart we are a very loose squad or rather a bunch of small squads and individuals sharing a voice channel on our own language. Sticking to one chess piece serves as a meeting point also to those who never read the forums or other media.

[scott66]

been a bishop since 03 I love being hated I have however switched about 8 times to nits to cut up on vox with my nit friends or to try and save a nit base from being taken over by the rooks to save a map I like I have some rook friends I like to fly with as well but just haven't switched yet. .I don't give away top secret info to any country lol not even my bish. .sometimes when I switch I get my balls busted by both sides but those that know me easily get over my switching......someone once said if you limit yourself to just playing for one side you're limiting your fun as well. .I agree

[jeep00]

why is it nobody likes bish?

Freud

[waystin2]

I am not anti-side switch, just part of a squad that is very comfortable in Knight real estate.

[DmonSlyr]

I think side switching makes the game more fun! Staying on one side limits your interaction with other players, can limit your play style, and can be less challenging. I think switching to side that is getting hoarded is a lot of fun and creates opportunities for more fighter action. Instead of coming to the BBs and complaning about not finding fights, I switch to the team that is getting hoarded and try to ruin that Hoard and create fights.

[Scca]

I think the challenge is the side switch timer restricts the free movement between chess pieces. 

I know it's been shortened recently, but even 6 hours is enough to cause frequent side switching to be problematic for folks that like to fly with a squad.  Let's say I log in, and the only squad member on.  I see the bish are the low numbers, so I switch.  Now I am here for 6 hours.  As others in the squad come on, they too have to switch lest we be labeled spiez (zoomoog!).  So now, 10 squaddies are on, we have all switched sides, and now the bish are the high numbers, and we have ENY.  Since we are stuck in bishland and it's not kosher to divide the squad into opposite sides anyway, we haven't accomplished our original goal of side balancing, we are more or less screwed. 

The AK's have resolved this by rotating each tour, and that's the best I think we can do.